Reports until 09:16, Tuesday 20 August 2024
H1 PEM
ryan.short@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:16, Tuesday 20 August 2024 - last comment - 21:14, Tuesday 20 August 2024(79605)
Magnetic Injection Suite is Working

This morning, I manually ran through the usual magnetic injection suite (21 total injections across all stations) that's run before Tuesday maintenance during normal observing times to verify things were working. The only hiccup I encountered was that none of the injections at EX seemed to run; the amplifiers turned on correctly, the correct filter modules were applied, and Guardian showed no errors, but the magnetometers gave no response when the injection was supposed to start and I saw no signal in the appropriate _EXCMON channels. After conversing with Dave and Erik and seeing there was no problem starting a manual excitation, they suggested that the PEM_MAG_INJ Guardian likely needed to be restarted to re-establish connection with the frontends at EX since some of them were restarted in June. After restarting the node, I ran through the suite again and there were no issues.

The last successful test ran from 1408203575 to 1408204731 (about 22 minutes), and I've left the Guardian in WAITING.

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adrian.helmling-cornell@LIGO.ORG - 21:14, Tuesday 20 August 2024 (79618)

Thanks Ryan! I attach a spectrogram from one of the EBAY magnetometers showing that the CER coil setup which was replaced works again. That should be the second set of injections in the spectrogram, from about 9-12 minutes. 

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